Ibanez PM200 Pat Metheny Prestige, Natural

Full Description

Beautiful Maple Hollow Body

The PM200 Pat Metheny Prestige Guitar features a hollow body design crafted from beautiful maple, with its natural finish showing off the woods figuring to create a stunning aesthetic. The maple tonewood provides a clear, defined upper midsection and a high-end sparkle, delivering a balanced low-end response ideal for chiming chords and super bright lead patterns. For added acoustic projection, a duo of classic 'F' sound holes are also featured on the maple soundboard, providing a classic look that many guitarists associate with the 1950s era.

Mahogany Neck & Bound Ebony Fingerboard

The mahogany neck is designed with Metheny’s custom profile to offer a smooth, fast play, while its prestige fret edge treatment provides a tight response. The mahogany tonewood produces a warm, mellow tone, with complex highs and thick, creamy lows. The neck is mounted with a bound ebony fingerboard, finished with acrylic and abalone block inlays to create an elegant apathetic. Ebony is a great choice for fingerboards, as its natural smoothness reduces finger fatigue, ideal for fast playing styles, and provides the perfect platform for percussive styles such as tapping or hammer-ons. It’s bound edges allow for a smooth play and fluid hand flexibility across the whole neck.

Single Silent 58 Humbucker

The single Silent 58 pickup helps to bring out the natural tones of the guitar woods, providing a wonderfully resonant playing experience. Based on the Super 58 humbuckers, this pickup offers the beautifully clean and warm sounds to accommodate this guitar’s natural tone, offering an authentic 'jazz-box' experience with excellent dynamics and plenty of depth. Its smooth, nuanced character ensures it can keep up with a variety of playing style, while its anti-feedback treatment keeps the overall sound noise free.

Classy Hardware

The Signature PM200 includes a Gotoh bridge with Metheny’s custom tailpiece, providing excellent tuning stability, incredible string resonance transfer, and an effortlessly cool aesthetic. The sure-grip control knobs provide a refined feel whilst the wood-shaded pickguard adds to its good looks. A bone nut aids in sustain, whilst gold coloured hardware completes the vintage appearance. All in all, the PM200 has a classy aesthetic and fortunately its tone and playability match up to its stunning style.

Ibanez Prestige Series

The Ibanez Prestige series combines precision, performance, and playability to create a range of powerfully versatile electric guitars. Mixing high-tech manufacturing with old-world Japanese craftsmanship, the Prestige series is innovative in design and construction. The range is known for high performing fast necks, iconic pickup pairing and advanced electronics and hardware.

Pat Metheny

Pat Metheny is a world renowned American Jazz guitarist and composer, known for his work in the Pat Metheny Group along with many duets, solo work, and other side projects. Pat grew up in a family of musicians, becoming interested in laying the guitar around the time the Beatles began performing on TV in 1964. It wasn’t until 1974 when Metheny made his first recording debut on the unofficially titled album ''Jaco'', and then went on to release his first official debut album ''Bright Size Life'' in 1967. Over his extensive career, Path Methenty has released albums spanning over 40 years, winning three gold albums and 20 Grammy awards, of which he is the only person to win Grammys in 10 different categories, along with many other achievements.

About Ibanez Guitars

Over the past 30 years, Ibanez Guitars have always been at the forefront of developing the right tools for electric guitar players pushing the boundaries of music. For decades, Ibanez designers and luthiers have been the embodiment of this ideology, pushing their skills to the edge of imagination, consistently creating some of the most versatile and unique instruments ever. Although Ibanez guitars have been made since 1908, it wasn't until the late 1980s that they began to form an identity for themselves when artists such as Steve Vai and Frank Zappa began using their instruments. Now with a huge artist clientele across the globe, Ibanez are a leading manufacturer of electric guitars and basses and a first choice for many dedicated musicians.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Body: Maple
• Length: 20’’
• Width: 16.5’’
• Max Depth: 4.25’’
• Bridge: Gotoh GE103B
• Tailpiece: PM
• Construction: Set-Neck
• Finish: Natural

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Mahogany
• Profile: PM
• Scale Length: 24.7’’
• Fingerboard: Bound Ebony
• Radius: 305mm
• Frets: 22 Medium w/Artstar Fret Edge Treatment
• Inlays: Acrylic & Abalone Blocks
• Nut: Bone
• Nut Width: 43mm

Electronics & Hardware

• Neck Pickup: Silent 58 (Passive/Alnico)
• Controls: Volume, Tone
• Tuners: Gotoh SG510
• Control Knobs: Sure Grip
• Hardware: Gold
• String: Flatwound (.011, .015, .022w, .030, .040, .050 Gauges)
• Case Included: Hardshell